Word: rapists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly ties of this succession of typically helpless victims. But the movie does take a surprising tack away from the obvious horror movie devices--an aggressor gets it. A rapist, in the process of attacking a woman, lies on the sand for a split-second too long and suddenly rolls over in blood, writhing in pain--the monster has struck, and this time where it counts...
...extreme violence of rape, whether it entails a weapon, a beating or threat of death, leaves a woman totally vulnerable. For the duration of the rape, she is no one. She is dead, simply a tool through which the rapist can show his power. In the aftermath she turns to an insensitive world with raw fear. She has been violated, her own self negated...
...Polish rapist is in the police line-up. They bring the woman in. He points at her and yells "That...
Robert Raymond, for example, is a convicted rapist who has spent most of the past 23 years behind bars. Last month he was at the Rock fighting rape and robbery charges and facing a possible sentence of as much as 74 years. Raymond, 45, knew the odds were against him: in 90% of the Rock's cases, the defendant either pleads guilty or is convicted, and prison sentences are dealt out 93% of the time. Says Judge Sylvester Close, one of Sklodowski's two colleagues at the Rock: "I'm no bleeding heart for any of these...
...while the audience cheers them on. The racial overtones are frightening, particularly when you consider that the strongest market for this kind of movie is the South. The humanoids fulfill the rabid redneck vision of black men invading their towns and screwing their women. The movie is both a rapist's and a Klansman's fantasy. Many horror movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys on Our Women. It's funny how the American male, when he is not thinking about raping a female, is aggressively protecting...